It is with great sadness that I write to the people of Poplar Bluff informing you that the Federal Courts have handed down a decision opposing our petition.

I believe that Open Access is the single most powerful impetus to true growth for our city, but at every turn this belief has been thwarted, ridiculed and fought by our city officials.

I congratulate Doug Bagby and the City Council. As you enjoy your victory and pat each other on the back for a job well done, I hope that you recognize you silenced your citizens, you deafened yourselves to the point of harm, and spent city funds to defeat the desires of the citizens who put you in office.

My family has been praying for Doug and each Council member by name, almost every day, out of obedience to the instructions of our Lord Jesus. We will continue to pray for God’s blessings upon their families.

To Barbara Rexroat, Kaye Carda and the ACLU, I personally and publically bless you for being hero’s in our community. Character is defined by actions, not by outcome.

God bless you all!

Oh, Poplar Bluff…we could have had Ikea’s first U.S. Manufacturing plant. We could have been a meca for Technology-centric startup companies. Our city could be touted with sentences like “the city-owned open-access fiber network plays a key role in business attraction and retention.” Poplar Bluff, we could have been Danville…for a lack of vision, we starve. Read the rest of this entry »

Closed on Monday January 2nd

We have decided to be closed on Monday, January 2nd, and allow our staff to start their New Year with a day off!

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 16, 2011

ACLU Files Class-Action Lawsuit on Behalf Voters of Poplar Bluff

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO. — The ACLU of Eastern Missouri filed a lawsuit today on behalf of registered voters of the City of Poplar Bluff who signed an initiative petition that the City Clerk, Pamela S. Kearbey, has refused to certify. Barbara Rexroat and Katherine Carda, two individuals who signed the petition filed the suit on their own behalf and on behalf of the class of at least 2,898 other registered voters who signed the petition.
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The city dropped off a letter this evening stating the petition doesn’t have enough valid signatures and therefore it will not be given to City Council to pass or place on a ballot.

Read more on LetPBDecide.com

From LetPBDecide.com:

I received a letter from the Missouri Ethics Commission on Thursday, Dec 1, stating Joseph Pulliam from Bernie, Mo, was a concerned citizen who would “like to know who supports this cause in the community where I work!”

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semotimes.com posted an article about the open access debate on Friday (Dec 2). Below are some excerpts, but you can read the entire article on their web site. Please consider posting their article to your facebook or twitter feed.

“There has never been an issue where 600 people in any ward reached out against their council members,” Becker said. Read the rest of this entry »

From the “Let PB Decide” web site:

A letter from an attorney at the Eastern Missouri division of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) was sent to Wally Duncan, City Attorney, demanding that the petition be certified because Mr. Duncan had mis-read and mis-applied the Missouri statutes.

Grant Doty, ACLU attorney, notes that only 609 signatures are necessary to file a petition: Read the rest of this entry »

At 3:59pm today, the Open Access Petition group submitted 1,195 new signatures collected over the past 10 days. That is TWO MORE than the 1193 voters the city disenfranchised by invalidating their signatures on Nov 17th.

The total number of signatures gathered from both drives is 4,633. Because people were required to sign again, there are now duplicate signatures in the petition. Read the rest of this entry »

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